Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of aromatherapy as a low-cost, non-invasive intervention for reducing exam anxiety in college students and improving their academic performance. Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted among 270 pharmacy from different years, who were divided into three distinct groups. Exam assessed using Sarason questionnaire at baseline af...

Test anxiety has detrimental effects on the academic performance of many university students. Moreover, female students usually report higher levels of test anxiety than do their male peers. The present study examined gender differences in test, trait, and math anxiety among university students, as well as differences in their academic achievement. Participants were 168 students from the Univer...

Background: Traditional lectures are still the most popular instructional method in the universities. This paper aimed to report the effects of traditional lectures, Socratic Method and students' lectures on the students? anxiety, learning satisfaction and exam score. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted on 40 nursing students to assess the effects of three methods. The course cont...

Our study sought to determine whether experimental disclosure could improve exam performance and psychological health in students taking a graduate school entrance exam. Students preparing for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, or PCAT were randomly assigned to write expressively about their upcoming exam or to a neutral writing condition. Participants completed measures of depressive symptoms and test anxie...

Our study sought to determine whether experimental disclosure could improve exam performance and psychological health in students taking a graduate school entrance exam. Students preparing for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, or PCAT were randomly assigned to write expressively about their upcoming exam or to a neutral writing condition. Participants completed measures of depressive symptoms and test anxie...

Aim: To examine the effect of multimodal managing examination anxiety program applied to high school students on test and some predictors anxiety.
 Material Methods: The population study, which was in pretest-posttest single-group quasi-experimental design, consisted 150 senior students. A once a week for 7 weeks 40 selected using convinient sampling. ınformation form Westside exam scale u...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect that standardized instruction of the male urogenital examination had on the anxiety levels of students and to determine what influence, if any, the gender of the student had on this experience. METHODS One hundred thirty six second year medical students were asked to report their level of anxiety before and after participation in a small group teaching ses...

BACKGROUND Adverse child environments are associated with the onset of mood and anxiety disorders in adulthood. The mechanisms underlying these life-course associations remain poorly understood. We investigate whether emotional reactivity to stress is a mechanism in the association between childhood environment characteristics and adult mood and anxiety disorders. METHODS Data are from the St...